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As an adjective, pervasive means manifested throughout.
Meanings of pervasive
2 meaningsadjective
Manifested throughout; pervading, permeating, penetrating or affecting everything.
“The medication had a pervasive effect on the patient's health.”
Spreading or spread throughout
“armed with permeative irony … he punctures affectations”
“the pervasive odor of garlic”
“an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion”
Similar: permeant, permeating, permeative
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
Synonyms by meaning
adjective: spreading or spread throughout
Words that rhyme with pervasive
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